Trope Pantheon, Second Chance Project

Okay, I've talk with GethN7, and there's a chance to bring back the Trope Pantheon, but it has to go through some stiff rules, first and foremost as shown in my sandbox, we're aiming for a Trope Museum of Greats and because the Other Trope wiki ran into some insane problems, like inconsistent epic sagas, bad grammar, using fads to put in gods ('Cause of shows/movies that are currently on), and I don't know what else. I got some questions for additional rules, I'm thinking rules so that way the gods/goddesses won't get rotated out, should there be two/several gods for one trope or should the TP be one god per trope, also, what type of rules should be added so we won't fall, like Tv Tropes? User:Jade Shauni/sandbox

Back in Tv Tropes's early days (and I used to lurk there), the Trope Pantheon used to be a museum of sorts that's about characters and a few historical ones that embody a trope, hence the god/goddesses stuff, just for fun purposes, Robkelk. What happen to Tv Tropes was that their Trope Pantheon became a huge mess over there, some of the tropers went wild and made horribly written huge fanfiction saga, that's so huge that they need a spread sheet to keep track of characters and events. So, it left from being a Trope Museum into I don't know what is. Here's the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Pantheon/TropePantheons

The goal that I'm proposing when resurrecting the TP, is keep it as a museum, not the twin of the worst Kingdom Hearts fanfiction.

I think we already have something similar in Most Triumphant Example (Sugar Wiki), and to a lesser degree Trope Codifier. I'd argue that the reason the second didn't become overgrown like the first is that it had a boring word like "codifier" in the title that sounded too much like lit crit. Boring definitions scare tropers away; everyone loves opinions!

I don't spend much time around here, but having done the wiki transfer I'm really quite familiar with most of the page titles. Everything has been done before, if you can find it. The question is if you can make it something worth finding.

Anyway I like the idea of a portrait gallery that serves as an MTE for character tropes, as opposed to plot and setting tropes.

Though I need to think and have ideas bounce off, so I can fix the template, to repurpose it into the Poster Museum, I only fix the summary page. What needs to be added or deleted in the template? Also, lets just keep it to characters, historical domain people, and character tropes instead, so it can be "small". The long time will gives us enough time to make the Poster Museum as different as possible from the TP.

It's this, poke around. Link: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Pantheon/TropePantheons
Though it's been a long time since I last look there, some of the gods/goddesses list might've been added to, subtracted, censored, and replace. I remember when the list(s) used to be small and that's before 2011.

I see. Yesterday, when I found out I was wondering why we don't have it and wondering if we can add new gods/goddesses, just to make AtT's trope pantheon a bit unique (and to show we're not exactly a TvT clone even more). If there's plans to resurrect the TP.

Oh, that explained why the old model got deleted when it came here. I do like GethN7's ideas about our own Trope Pantheons, even starting afresh with new gods and to keep it serious, so it won't fall down the same level as the Tv Tropes one.

It would be difficult though, but I think there must need to be some sort of stricter rules laid in on who gets to be in the Tropes Pantheon. So that way we won't accidentally add our fap material/waifu/husbandos and it will have less of a chance of become a badly written Kingdom Hearts fic. But I'm just brainstorming here, if what I'm saying doesn't work or the whole TP is a fail. I can ask let's resurrect something else instead.

Well, again, I'm not going to work on this myself, but if it were revived, the following rules would be quite useful.

1. Use proper grammar at all times. If your English is poor or not your first language, get it proofread in a sandbox before posting or don't post.

2. If you have a bias for or against a character, keep it out of your writing.

3. Crossovers should have some modicum of logic involved.

4. Connections based purely on voice actor connections are a lazy way to write crossover interaction.

5. Don't put characters in positions because they are currently in vogue, do it because they best embody a trope.

6. Keep everything consistent. TV Tropes needs a massive Google Docs spreadsheet to keep track of shit and they still can't keep it consistent because they have too many cooks changing up the soup that don't communicate with each other.

7. Refrain from trying to write epic fanfiction sagas. TV Tropes has done so and it should be avoided, as they have limited characters based around the same damned themes and the mass majority of it is written by some weirdo who likes the same five to eight or so series and can't stand some characters got portrayals they didn't like.

8. If you are writing about a character because something about them turns you on, STOP.

Just some decent rules off the top of my head I can think of right now.

These are good rules, though what's funny is I never associated the TP as a huge fanfic epic saga, since I always thought that they should embody the trope...Which is why they ended up as gods. I treat the TP more of a Trope god museum of greats (I'm usually the first one to crossover everything that I get my hands on though, good thing it didn't click back then and I was valuing common sense).

Okay, if this does get resurrected. I'll say put GethN7's rules above the template and a warning that we don't wanna fall, like TvT, and straying from the Trope Museum path by making the same mistakes.

Question, how do you feel about real people coming into the Trope Pantheon? I saw some guys (i.e. Terry Prachette, Tolkien) in the Tv Tropes Pantheon. I have a feeling that we should just stick to fictional characters when it comes to the new Trope Pantheon, mainly because of "No Real Life Examples" and it'll be easy to use in sites, like fanfiction.net (Which has a no real people rule, though I don't think that historical dead people count).

Hmmm, it looks like we're kinda doing those suggestions, like the analysis (This will be tricky to not fall into the "let's list all da tropes"), useful notes, and a few aspects that does need tweaking.

Would having something like the badges that wikia help? I don't know if that'll be a good idea, 'cause I already like the userboxes and whatever is already implemented. Seeing that awards was suggested.

I doubt implementing achievements for this wiki would be useful because it would be so much effort for such a small userbase. Also, I think that achievements on wikis are way less entertaining than those on video games, so I don't really see the appeal.

Plans are currently in the pipeline to give the wiki a major feature overhaul, to make it more competitive feature-wise with TV Tropes and to provide better edit tools and even some fun stuff of users to play with.

I cannot say more until tests are done, but it is hoped that this will help in inducing more people to use our wiki if it is more easily accessible to edit and socialize on.

@Jade Shauni I've been developing this idea of using a rating system of quality similar to what WP and many other wikis do to evaluate the quality of their articles. WP calls it Assessment. I've mentioned it on the DW Forums and therefore I welcome your comments.

Ah, ok, I don't have a thing to add about the assessment currently and I'm looking forward to the outcome of the tests. But on a few places on reddit, someones was wishing that ATT was mobile safe (Though this probably counts as part of 'more easily accessible').

The Darth/Sugar Wiki

Hey, I was poking around the Darth Wiki mostly and I notice that both the Sugar and Darth wikis need the forums, like the Paint the Hero in Black article. Do we have a big forum to make our own PtHiB (and others)? Also, is it safe for me to add the Wiki Witch and a few pages that I see in Wayback (I know that I will run into a road block with the ones that need those forums). I want to know, so I don't break some rules by attempting to bring back a problematic page/trope.

Clean up red links with wrong capitalization or punctuation

There are a few thousand titles redlinked on this wiki whose name is the same as that of an existing page, apart from punctuation and capitalization. Either they need to be corrected in the articles, or redirects need to be created. I've made a list at User:Damian Yerrick/redlink fixes; once these are out of the way, I'll be able to run fuzzier matching.

Of late, my efforts to add DEFAULTSORT tags to pages that need them has led me through the contents of the master Trope category. I have discovered that about 10% of the tropes I edit are actually miscategorized works. I think we desperately need a team effort to go through every page in that category and find all the works that have been erroneously put there.

Trope Life Cycle Icons

I just had an idea I wanted to throw out for consideration. We've formalized the Trope Life Cycle -- what do people think of coming up with icons or graphics for some of the stages? I was thinking in particular that it might be a good idea to have a visual flag to put on the pages for Dead Horse Tropes and Forgotten Tropes. A graphic for the default live trope would probably be more trouble than it's worth, but these two I think might profit from an icon of some sort.

Trope Relationships

TV Tropes tried to implement a Relationships system whereby tropes could be connected into a single tree of supertropes and subtropes. This seems like a wonderful idea to me, and I don't know why they didn't push it more than they did.

I think if we create a subpage for Related Tropes, we can push the concept farther than TV Tropes did, helping to establish more of a unique identity for us.

Well, to start with, we need a boilerplate for the Related Tropes page. It should contain a table, which contains lists for supertropes, subtropes, and neighbor tropes (tropes that share a common supertrope). We'll dispense of the "parent"/"child" terminology, because I think that caused some people to be confused as to what it's about. We want everyone to know that All The Tropes is organizing them in a "general to specific" manner, NOT in a "this trope evolved/gave birth to this trope" manner. (Unless you prefer otherwise?)

We'll also need an icon for it (I can take care of that).

Finally, you or Vorticity can make a bot which automatically patrols Related Tropes subpages, and ensures the data matches up (all supertropes listed in Trope X's RT subpage should list Trope X as a subtrope in all the supertropes' RT subpages, and vice versa). It won't be as instant and automatic as whatever TV Tropes does, but it will suffice, I think.

Vorticity is currently working on a much improved trope/work/creator template to replace our current ones, so you might wish to ask him if you can assist with that, since this proposal and that go somewhat hand in hand.

I'm not sure it needs to be a subpage. Well, let me rephrase that. I'm sure it needs to be displayed on the main page, probably as some sort of Wikipedia-like data template. If what you want to do is have that template be on another subpage, and transcluded into the main page (along with its own edit link), that might work. We might even want to do that with examples some day.

But... I don't really have tuits to set this up right now. Any idea on how to start that kind of design?

Also since you mentioned images... you made cool images, but I felt like they were way too big. Is it possible for you to work at smaller sizes? 24/32/48/64px? I'd like to do sprites that display in hi-res on retina displays.

The "Works Needing Summary" Index Needs You!

Well, given the old topic on this is gone, I just want to say that the list of projects that need pages is here, and it needs your help! Whether it be filling out redlinks with pages or even just adding works without pages to the list, we need YOU to help fill in our page-gaps and missing works so we can truly come into our own as a Wiki!.

I mean, we don't even have pages on Game Grumps or The Lego Movie for god's sake! So let's get crackin'! Anyone want to take on any projects?